1940

The summer vacation for your correspondent from the class notes is drawing nigh and again an expression of deep thanks is extended to one and all who have made it possible to write this column. Without the news that you so faithfully send it could not exist.

Two months ago we reported that Gary Allen's young son was winning ski races right and left and last month we gave you the unhappy news that he had broken his leg. Again bad news follows good. We had just finished writing that Bob Skinner had had a highly successful winter at his ski shop in Sunapee, N. H., when the news reached us that the place had burned down on April 8. Maybe this may not be such a tragedy after all for more can usually be realized from the insurance company on unsold merchandise with the season over than from the annual clearance sale.

Bob Kelley has devoted his business efforts to the furtherance of the progress of General Electric ever since the War. He is now manner of finance for the Gear Motor Department in Paterson, N. J. Bob and his wife have four children ranging in age from thirteen to five.

'"some of our classmates seem to spend their rime making speeches. Those reported this month include Fred Pillsbury, vice president of the Hampden County (Mass.) Bar Association, who addressed the medical credit's division of the Springfield Credit Bureau on legal problems in connection with credit procedures. Almost simultaneously Warren Miller explained group, pension, accident and health insurance to a seminar in practical management for small manufacturers, also in Springfield. He is local manager of the Aetna Life Insurance Co. in that city, prior to which he was successively in the home office in Hartford, manager of the Concord, N. H., office, and in the Boston office.

Nat Sample is an architect with the firm of Weiler & Strang in Madison, Wis., where he and Ginny live with their five children, boys thirteen and eleven and girls ten, seven and five. He is presently serving as a director of the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. And speaking of architects, the firm of Bastille-Halsey Associates, of which Bill Halsey is a partner, has been selected to remodel and renovate the Porter Congregational Church in Brockton, Mass.

Creight Holden complains that none of the easterners avail themselves of the excellent facilities of his inn. If you have made no vacation plans, here is one of the best suggestions we can imagine. Jean, Creight and their five children will be delighted to see you. For further information write him at St. Clair Inn, St. Clair, Mich.

The GuaranteeMutual Life Insurance Co. of Omaha, Nebr., boasts Hodge Jones as one of its actuaries. His observation is that he has reached that time in life when keeping his nose to the grindstone consumes most of his time and does not give him all the time he would like to enjoy his wife and three children.

Doc Darnley is also putting in long hours as assistant chief of neurology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Jabbo Blass sees few Dartmouth men in Little Rock, Ark., but he did have the pleasure of meeting Hugh Dryfoos, who was probably out there selling his Christmas tree ornaments. Jabbo get to New York on business every six or eight weeks and would like to get together with any old friends at the Dartmouth Club. And speaking of Dryfoos, he and his wife Joan are currently vacationing in Europe.

Joe Dunford, in the television film business, has moved to Washington, Conn., where yours truly summers. The late hours in New York made commuting to Norwalk, Conn., a practical impossibility, so now he spends three or four days a week in New York and the balance of the time communing with nature in the lovely Berkshire countryside.

Whit and Marty Miller and their four children went from Kansas City to Aspen, Colo., for skiing over spring vacation, I hey were accompanied by a wagon train carrying three other couples and seventeen children. Nothing like taking your whole neighborhood on vacation with you. Whit says that he has convinced four top Kansas City high school juniors, in addition to his son, that Dartmouth is "the" place to go.

Via Jack Little, who has been doing a phenomenal job on the Capital Gifts Campaign, comes news of Bob Weil and Bill Harriman. Bob is a partner in the important cotton firm of Weil Brothers in Montgomery, Ala. Hesays that there are five Dartmouth alumni intown of which his brother and Bob Foss aretwo. Bob remarks that he would like to havesome of the alumni in the area create a scholarship fund to send more boys from thatpart of the country to Hanover. Bill Harriman is back in his beloved Spain.

Last April I came back to Madrid as vice president of the consulting firm of DeGolyer and MacNaughton in charge of our Spanish office, which supervises the oil exploration program of a joint Spanish-American company. This is now a pretty substantial outfit which operates three geophysical crews and three drilling rigs in all parts of Spain. During the past year we have been encouraged by oil and gas shows in both north and south, and there are high hopes for a real discovery in 1959.

Daughter Virginia was born last November 29, rounding out the second echelon of the family. Our first daughter, Susan, is nearly two. Bill and Larry, aged fifteen and thirteen, are boarding at the International School in Geneva. In Dallas Bill was regular fullback on a junior high team in the rugged Texas league, and last summer he was junior 100-meter freestyle champion of Madrid. He may develop into a pretty fair prospect for the Big Green teams, thinks fond father. Wife Ann is enjoying the gay life of Madrid - especially the three maids at the price of a part-time helper in the States.

The welcome mat is out for any wandering 40's at Valázquez 63, Madrid. Surely some of you will be travelling, even after building Hopkins Center.

Last weekend was spent in Hanover at Class Officers' meetings, also attended by Jack and Lois Moody and Don Rainie. Those of us who can get back there with some regularity consider ourselves privileged. The beautiful spring weather brought back memories of younger days, but most of all it made us realize more than ever that this indeed is an uncommon place and one which deserves our every effort to preserve and improve.

Until next fall, Godspeed, and the happiest of summers. And again many thanks.

Secretary, Hemphill, Noyes and Co. 15 Broad St., New York 5, N. Y.

Class Agent, 524 E. 89th St., New York 28, N. Y.